Architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu channeled the classic 1950s American diner for their recent restaurant project in the former French Concession district of Shanghai.

This gut renovation of an existing Spanish Colonial–style structure in a resort town of Baja California reinterprets traditional forms and materials.

Clad in tile, mirrors, and glass, this high-end lounge gleams as much as the water it fronts.

An elegantly modern medical spa and resort in Germany exudes luxury and calm.

Breathing new life into old buildings, a hospitality brand offers lodging that blends the informality of a hostel with the comforts of a boutique hotel.

A former hospital in the Venetian Lagoon transforms into an upscale resort.

A London-based firm whips a Victorian-era gymnasium in London back into shape as a modern mecca of Mittel-European cuisine.

Rumor has it that the quaint town inspired the architecture in Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast. But in a recent renovation of the city’s Musée Unterlinden, Herzog & de Meuron made a conscious effort to avoid the preciousness of a Disney film.

The completion of Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s (RPBW) Valletta City Gate comes 30 years after the architect was first invited to remodel the main entrance to Malta’s walled capital.

When lighting designer Hervé Descottes began work on Jean Nouvel’s concert hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the project was well under construction, and the architect even had another designer’s lighting scheme in hand.